Young French striker offered trial

According to news reports in France, Arsenal set to offer a trial to Caen forward M’Baye Niang.

France.fr says that the youngster will join the club for a trial period, with a view to a permanent move. The news of a trial is slightly surprising because, although he’s just 17 years of age, he played 23 times for Caen last season, scoring 2 goals.

With doubts over much of Arsenal’s forward line this summer (Van Persie – obvious : Walcott – dubious : Bendtner – illustrious : Arshavin – tedious : Chamakh and Park – oblivious : Myaichi – loanius), perhaps Wenger is looking for some back up, and has had some success with 17 year olds from France before.

Meanwhile, the Carlos Vela to Real Sociedad saga continues with local newspapers suggesting that Arsenal and Sociedad are more or less in agreement in terms of the fee but with still a number of details to sort out.

The Basque club seem confident of making the signing, however, and hope to have the deal concluded this week. All going well Vela will sign a 4 year contract, Arsenal will receive around €4m + extras, as well as a large sell-on with as much as 60% of any future transfer fee coming our way.

Real had also put forward a co-ownership model but Arsenal have rejected that.

Maybe he and his representatives will refuse, stating they don’t think the club is being run correctly… As apparently that’s part of playing as a striker for arsenal.
All jokes aside, bringing in prospects for a look can’t hurt, especially if adding him to the squad won’t hurt the size restrictions if he’s just 17.

He could just have developed earlier though.
Good to see its business as usual at the arsenal. Still picking up talent even while the media shit storm of “club in crisis” rages on for another fecking year.

Think this could be a great buy if he proves successful in his trial. With Chamakh attracting attention from Fiorentina and RVP potentially on his way out, we could do with another striker for the future. With Giroud, Podolski and maybe another Striker if we get an RVP replacement, this guy could have a few role models to develop into a great player!

it’s amazing how so many of us have gotten over the van persie saga.
looks like we have some real hunger this season and it’s great to see us get back to supporting the young players.say as you want but youngsters are our core and the experience added last summer and this summer is only gonna help us.we are on the upward curve.it’s just a trophy that’s been missing.

Strange…..seems to me as though no player linked to arsenal ever flops on fm12.
All I see is develops into a solid this, solid that. Yeiy!
I’l try selling rvp to man city and see how it goes for him. I bet he flops hard then he’s sold to some qatar based club where then he is forced to retire due to lack of assists from his new teammates. Cunt!.

I know this dosent mean much but just for discussion I signed this lad in football manager for £9 million and he’s 4 1/2 star potential future superstar and scoring for fun, I got a thrill when I saw this article, (jack wilshire, Eden hazard are 4 1/2 star potential just to gauge) he and theo have replaced traitor van persie very nicely.

Well a club like Arsenal takes players on trial all the time, and there’s of course the tired line that Arsene looking towards a young frenchman is not entirely out of character, but this is good news regardless (if it’s true). Clubs in the top flights of European football rarely let their players go on trial to other clubs like this, so if this is true then it suggests to me that a fee has been agreed in principle. Which is good news as this guy is a real talent – he has the potential to be a top, top player.

Just read that Seydou Keita has left Barcelona for some Chinese team… I thought we could’ve done worse than boosted our defensive midfield options with a free transfer for an experienced trophy-laden player who’d be familiar with the style of football we like to play. Sure, he’s 32, but he’d have been a good option to have…

If I wasn’t mistaken, a player on trial cannot start a competitive match. He will train with the team and maybe play Friendlies, then Wenger and his coaching staffs will decide whether he is good enough for us to make an offer. I have no idea how long the trial period will be though.

Brek was essentially, for lack of a better example, an exchange student. As far as I’m aware, they are a club that we are connected to and he was training with us during the off-season but I may be wrong.
Obviously Wenger decided he either wasn’t ready or didn’t show enough potential.